UNAIDS/WB/UNDP sessions on Mainstreaming AIDS and Multi-sectoral
Responses at the 7th ICAAP in Kobe
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Dear colleagues,
Please find below on invitation to two UNAIDS/WB/UNDP sponsored
SESSIONS on MAINSTREAMING AIDS and MULTI-SECTORAL RESPONSES at
the INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON AIDS IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
(ICAAP) in Kobe on July 2 and 4, 2005.
BACKGROUND:
Under the UNGASS Declaration of Commitment, 181 countries have
agreed to mainstream HIV and AIDS in development frameworks at
national, sectoral and local levels. For relevant sectors and
actors to make their specific contributions to the national AIDS
response, they need to engage in an iterative process of main-
streaming HIV and AIDS. Through this, national strategies and
sectoral and local actions mutually inform and reinforce each
other.
The UNAIDS Secretariat, UNDP, and the WORLD BANK have been sup-
porting AIDS mainstreaming as a critical approach to effectively
scaling up the responses to the epidemic in all regions. In line
with this, they are co-hosting two satellite events at the
ICAAP, aimed at:
* Establishing the rationale for multi-sectoral responses to HIV
and AIDS in Asia, and highlighting the importance of main-
streaming as a key strategy for achieving this; and
* Within the Asian context, establishing mainstreaming AIDS as
an essential implementation modality, both at sectoral and sub-
national levels - where "vertical" strategies are translated
into coordinated, "horizontal" actions.
SATELLITE SESSIONS:
1 - WB "MAKING HIV/AIDS EVERYONE'S BUSINESS: MULTISECTORAL AP-
PROACHES TO MAINSTREAMING HIV/AIDS"
Saturday, 2 July 2005, 12.30-2 p.m., Room C-405 at the Interna-
tional Conference Centre Kobe (free lunch boxes will be pro-
vided, no RSVP needed)
Chair: Schweitzer Julian, Director Human Development South Asia
Region, World Bank - S.Y. Quraishi, Additional Secretary and
Project Director, National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), In-
dia - Bundy Donald, Lead Specialist, Education, Human Develop-
ment Network, World Bank - Dubey Nidhi, Director (advocacy),
Richard Gere Foundation - Das Kankana, Manager, Corporate rela-
tions, Apollo Tyres, Ltd India
2 - UNAIDS Secretariat & UNDP "MAKING MULTISECTORAL RESPONSES
WORK: AN ASIAN PERSPECTIVE"
Monday, 4 July 2005, 12.30-2 p.m., Room C - 403, at the Interna-
tional Conference Centre Kobe (free lunch boxes will be pro-
vided, no RSVP needed)
Chair: S.Y. Quraishi, Additional Secretary and Project Director,
NACO, India - Keynote address: H.E. Alwi Shihab, Coordinating
Minister for People's Welfare, Chair of the NAC, Indonesia -
Country presentations: Soukaseum Bodhisane, Vice Governor, Sa-
vannakhet Province, Lao PDR, Narayan Bahadur Thapa, Joint Secre-
tary, Ministry of local development, Nepal - Plenary discussion
Facilitator: Bruce Parnell, Senior Fellow HIV and Development,
The Burnet Institute, Australia - Closing remarks: Chair, UNAIDS
(Werasit Sittitrai) and UNDP (Joseph Annan)
Kind regards,
Lars Bernd
Technical Officer, Mainstreaming AIDS in Development
Country Performance and Analysis Division (CPA)
Country & Regional Support Department
UNAIDS - WCC 160
20, Avenue Appia
CH-1211 Geneva
Tel: +41-22-791-1461
Fax: +41-22-791-4149
mailto:berndl@unaids.org
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